The command stated that investigations into the case would be concluded this week, adding that Yakubu would be arraigned thereafter.

The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who gave the update on Tuesday, warned other DPOs in the state to caution their men or be ready to be held responsible for their official misconducts.

He also confirmed the story of a police armourer attached to the Ipakodo Police Station, Sergeant Sunday Odu, who was said to have sold 750 pieces of ammunition from the division’s armoury and replaced them with pebbles.

Owoseni spoke during a meeting with senior officers of the command at POWA Secretariat, Ikeja.

PUNCH Metro had reported that the DPO had around 7.30pm on Sunday, May 7, led some policemen to Wosilatu Daudu Street, Ijeshatedo, where Ayoade was attending his friend’s birthday party.

The operatives, who raided the area, shot into the air to disperse the gathering.

Yakubu reportedly chased Jamiu and other fun seekers into a building and shot him in the head at a close range. The 23-year-old was said to have bled to death while he was being taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba. One Akeem also sustained a gunshot injury in the hand.

The command subsequently detained the DPO and commenced investigations into the incident.

Owoseni on Tuesday said Yakubu had violated rules of engagement during the raid on the area, adding that he would be arraigned upon the completion of administrative processes on the case.

He said, “I don’t know what he was thinking that could have made him (the DPO) to shoot at somebody in the crowd. He would be arraigned in court; no doubt about that. For any civilian that is killed unjustifiably, my emotion can’t take it. I feel the pain of the family of that boy. Why should I defend anybody that kills?

“There are administrative processes to be followed, which are almost complete. Probably, it will be completed by the end of this week and the DPO will be arraigned in court.”

Lamenting the misconduct of some operatives of the command, the CP asked the DPOs to curtail the excesses of the cops under them. He said, thenceforth, DPOs would be held liable for atrocities committed by officials under their supervision.

He said, “Caution your men. How can you be friends with people when policemen are on the road brutalising and extorting money from them? I don’t collect returns from any DPO.

“From today (Tuesday), for any act of misconduct that happens in your area, you will be held responsible…if you fail to submit yourself, I will come to arrest the policeman that commits the offence. You (DPO) and the offender will be paraded before the press. You will be redeployed and queried.”

He also urged policemen to be modest in dealing with members of the public and to follow ethics of the force to the letter.

“Don’t shout at people. You have to weigh the kind of danger your life is exposed to before you use weapons. Whenever force is used by a policeman, the incident should immediately be reported and reviewed by superior officers,” he added.

Owoseni said the sergeant who sold the ammunition attempted to kill two senior officers assigned to investigate the crime.

He said, “He attempted to kill a CSP and a SP that went to check the armoury. Some ammunition and pebbles were seen in the armoury that is supposed to contain about 750 pieces of ammunition.”

Meanwhile, the police have declared a leader of a notorious kidnapping gang, Donaltus Evans, wanted.

It was said that the anti-kidnapping team of the command had stormed the gang’s hideout in a bungalow on Ataye Street, in the Igando area of the state, and recovered four AK-47 rifles, two automatic pistols and four magazines with 15 rounds of ammunition.

Owoseni said, “Some 1,272 pieces of live ammunition, one police bullet-proof and a Toyota Hiace, were also recovered during the operation. Two suspects were arrested.

“The police in Lagos, Anambra, Edo and Delta states have been searching for this notorious gang. The command is working seriously to ensure that Evans is apprehended. He has been on our wanted list for three years. The state government and the police are working on a very handsome reward for information that can lead to his arrest and that of other members of the gang.”

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My worries is that when a public officer displays honesty and professional conduct: forces of evil are quick to act against him either by redeployment or early retirement, i am worried about how far can the lagos state CP go?

But i honestly pray for him and all those who shares his honest and professional attribute in the police force.

Ronke Olalekan

About the prophet of solution.
In one of the solution night vigils last year, Bishop called me out as he usually call people out and tell them things about themselves. He told me how all my siblings have graduated without job and husband. He revealed to me that our first daughter got married at age 36 and the marriage was devolved before her 37th birthday. That was when I knew he is a real seer because he doesn’t know me before and no one else except me, my mom and sister knew that the marriage has been scattered. We hid it from everyone. To. It the long story short, Bishop conducted deliverance on me that night, gave me anointed water and said the two women tormenting my family has met their end. I went home in the morning and saw two big dead rats at the entrance to my apartment. I sprinkled the water the Man of God gave me on the rats, prayed and disposed of the rats. 11am that same day, my mother called me from PH and said she was called from the village that my aunty and her daughter that has been troubling us died in their parlour over the night with charms around them. That means they were even doing charms and doing evil as at the time I was at the night vigil in Lagos. Today, I am planning my wedding with a man I met at my new place of work. Praise God for the liberation.Thank God for giving us a prophet like Bishop Solomon Koleayo.
You can reach the prophet of solution directly for prophetic prayers and spiritual counseling on:
08023499011
Or visit the prophet on Thursdays 10am
At
Diamond Life Church,
Opp. FCT High Court, UNIABUJA teaching Hospital Road, Gwagwalada-Abuja

Call now for spiritual help/prayers to be healed of that infirmity and be free from that demonic manipulations going on in your life.

OKOYE:
I believe in God and His Prophet, Bishop Koleayo. I saw Bishop’s number somewhere online and I decided to call him and immediately I asked him to pray for me. He told me I am being owed alot of money by the Government and some people where sitting on my payment. But in 14 days, they will be the one to call me. I was shocked. It was as if I was dreaming. If Bishop is not a true prophet of God, there is no way he would have known all that about me.
Someone that hasn’t seen me. Just hearing my voice he could tell me my problems. This is amazing.
I bless God, indeed as bishop said, I was called and my money was paid without delay. There was nothing I didn’t do to get my money paid for over 2 years but without result. I was almost giving up because the stories were too much but after my encounter with God’s servant, everything that seem dead in my life came back again.
SALIHU:
Yes it is true, the man of God is indeed being used by God.
God used him to save the life of our Emir.
We were in a private meeting with the Emir of our town that no one is normally suppose to pick calls but when suddenly the Emir looked at his phone and on realizing who was calling, he rushed to picked up his call and said it was his prophet calling. The next thing was that he said Bishop Solomon Koleayo said he should rush and leave his palace immediately. Before i could say jack Robinson, the man left us, headed for his car and drove himself out of his palace.
It did not even take twenty minutes after he left when some armed young men came into the palace and was ransacking the whole place, asking and looking for the Emir. maybe to assassinate or to kidnap him.
If the prophet had not called him to reveal it to him, Only God knows what would have happened.
DOROTHY
My friend was married for eight years without a child until she met Bishop Koleayo who prayed for her to have the baby she just delivered. when my friend told me about the Bishop and the amazing things God has used him to do for her and other people she knows, I quickly collected his phone numbers because my marriage was in shambles. I was married but looked as if I wasn’t, My husband doesn’t care about me, He avoids me as if I am irritating him, doesn’t talk with me or do anything with me. I was married but wasn’t happy. He used to be very loving, friendly and nice all through the seven years we courted and two years after our marriage. I can’t explained how it started but I just saw him changed and hated me so much.Immediately I called the prophet, he asked me for my names and before I could say any other thing, to my shock, he narrated all I’m going through and he revealed that the younger sister of my husband took my name to a shrine where they did something so my husband will not be seeing my glory or beauty. Bishop then asked me to get a glass of water which he prayed upon over the phone and asked me to wash my face with it immediately. I did it and to my surprise, three hours latter my husband sent me a text that he is sorry for all he has been doing and I should forgive him. That is how God did it for me and since then, I have enjoyed a happy marriage. -Sis. Dorothy

Okenwa:
I attended the prophetic night vigil organized by Diamond Life Church last month and I saw wonders of God. It was my friend who invited me. As the prophet was doing deliverance and prophecy, he mentioned my name and told me that someone is owning me and refusing to pay but his prayer now has troubled the man and the man will call me before the end of the night vigil and true to his word, a man that has been owing me millions of Naira and has been refusing to pick my calls called me, I went outside the church to pick the call. He said he saw me now flogging him in his dream to pay me my money that I should come on Monday morning to collect my cheque.Praise the Lord, the man has paid me my money.

You can reach the prophet of solution directly for prophetic prayers and spiritual counseling on:
08023499011
Or visit the prophet on Thursdays 10am
At
Diamond Life Church,
Opp. FCT High Court, UNIABUJA teaching Hospital Road, Gwagwalada-Abuja

Call now for spiritual help/prayers to be healed of that infirmity and be free from that demonic manipulations going on in your life.

Malik

It’s mostly policemen of Northern disposition that are quick to shoot Southerners in Lagos. It’s high time policemen are deplored strictly to communities and areas they identify with ethnically. Deploy Hausa policeman to strictly Hausa communities in Lagos and do the same with the other major tribes too. It might not eradicate this issue of indiscriminate killings completely but it will go a long way in addressing it.

AzeezSemiuOladele

Where do you get this statistics? Let’s be cautious in our submissions because you’re completely wrong. Crime rate is higher in the south than in the North. Do you know what that means?

Adebanke Obafemi

You are a foolish man.
Crime rate is higher in the North than in the south.
Fuck you.
Boko Haram terrorist.

AzeezSemiuOladele

You must have felt good after referring to as a foolish man for expressing my opinion because you believe that you have better understanding of topic.
Terrorism is a national ragging fire which only dunce like you would put under single and isolated crimes like this.

Someone there is!

there are more crimes commited in the western and southern part on Nigeria than in the North.
When i was travelling to Abuja by night bus, right from Lagos toll till we leave the entire western zones there were police post at every part of the road but by the time we get closer to the northern state the police posts were almost vanish, throughout Niger, Kaduna no police point at all till we got to Abuja. Mean while during our journey in the western roads (Ogun, Oyo, Kwara or so the journey was not smooth at all, is either you will see vehicles driving too fast because they are running away from robbers or something. even our drive testify to it that there are criminals all over the roads, some boys will barricade an express road that they are one task force or something collecting money from motorist.

dele6868

You did not seem to get @Malik’s point. It is not about a broad North and South geographical location. It is about the attitude of a northerner in the south, and I think it makes sense. There is generally an attitude of superiority or hatred that you can easily discern in a policeman, even a soldier, of northern extraction, in his dealing with southern persons.

Ajayi olupono

Fellow counytrmen and women , we are all talking about the brutal killing of a 23 years old youngman simply because the case was published by the PUNCH NEWSPAPER , but only God knows the number of those that were assassinated by the policeman called Mohammed Yakubu untill recently ! Obviously , Jamiu Ayoade , was certainly not his first victim going by the way the ruthless assassin in uniform shot Jamiu at a very close range in the head !

Wild Emperor

I also wish that is possible but obviously now. It’s the same principle that governs NYSC posting

Wild Emperor

I also wish that is possible but obviously not. It’s the same principle that governs NYSC posting

Someone there is!

well, that statistic will not stop that policeman from shooting his own
brother. Police work in Nigeria is for people without hope, because they
do the same crime an ordinary civilian does, drink with agbero in a
joint, eat the same food an okada man eats in the same mamaput shop or
gutter side, their children are wore because they take the advantage of
their parents being in police force, all manners of crime commited by
ordinary civilian a policeman will double it. If u want to commit crime
in Lagos carry a policeman along the way.

Thank you, Compol, sir. Now, no matter what the prosecutor and other police operatives do in court with this case, we, the Lagos public, shall be happy with this public denunciation. I also hope that the higher authorities will allow the CP to stay long in Lagos after this open declaration. Too many people are unhappy with the truth, and I expect the anti-truth lobby to wage a fierce battle in Abuja.

FRED USHIE AGIDA

I wish the police command will investigate Bariga police station,what I always observe every morning is that some of the police men at Bariga police station will not be on uniform,but will go round and be arresting innocent citizen go about their daily activities to end a living,eg, okada rider,keke nape and motorist.I dont know why police men that suppose to protect life have turn criminal in our society.

GODSAVENIGER

Dear CP,
If what you said is truly your disposition may good God help you to succeed. It also means there is hope for the police force and the country. I have always believed that the police could be made to be more responsible if the DPO is held responsible for the crimes in their jurisdiction and erring policeman is also brought to book for any crime or wrong actions and inaction.

Wild Emperor

I hope the oga at the top in Edo state will look into the case of the young man that was handcuffed to a police van ….

dele6868

I believe they will. The IGP and Compol Lagos have similar approaches to internal discipline.

Sanni Oiza

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dele6868

You are 100 times worse than Lanre Gentry, when you need to compel a woman’s loyalty by any means, especially by turning her into a mental and spiritual zombie. Away with this nonsense.